Dexter 4x10

Dexter has followed Arthur to an amusement arcade. Arthur follows a young woman with two kids. Is the cycle starting anew? Dex briefly loses sight of Arthur, who kidnaps a boy. What is going on? Dex rushes to the parking lot, but is too late. Arthur calls “Kyle” that he doesn’t appreciate being followed – and promises he will “preserve the boy’s innocence.” He takes the boy to a basement, addressing him as “Arthur,” while playing with a toy train. The boy, Scott, asks for food, but Arthur won’t give him any unless he puts on the pajamas he laid out for him. The kid refuses, wanting to return to his parents. Later, Arthur talks about his sister, and Scott says he is sorry. He can call him “Arthur,” he puts on the pajamas, and they can play trains some more. Arthur mixes a sedative into an ice cream cup, promising he will take him home after he’s finished. At his lab, Dex researches lost boy cases and discovers that the “Trinity Killer” always started his cycle with a boy about ten years old. Lundy misread the pattern, for missing children are never reported as homicide. In his morbid ritual, Arthur begins with a boy, to “preserve his innocence,” indeed. Through a hint from Jonah, Dex is searching empty houses in hopes of finding Arthur before it is too late. Eventually he finds the location, but Arthur has already left with the boy. At the Four Walls building site, Arthur is about to hide Scott’s body in cement. After a quick scuffle, Dex knocks him out, saves the boy from the cement, still alive, but Arthur has fled.

Deb is such an excellent cop. She noticed something was off with Christine. She was the first reporter to arrive on the scene of Lundy’s death, in full make-up, at 5:20am, barely fifteen minutes after the shooting was dispatched on the police scanner, and she asked Deb how horrible it was to look the man she loved in the eyes as he breathed his last breath – something only her colleagues knew (and Quinn never spoke about it to her). Under the pretence of the “hero interview,” she plans to interrogate Christine, while Batista looks on from the monitor. Christine dodges Debra’s questions uneasily. She’s clearly lying. They have to be careful, now that they have raised her suspicion, as she hasn’t been accused of anything just yet. Once out of the police station, she calls her father, who denies her request to see him. Deb pleads with Quinn to get Christine’s toothbrush for DNA testing. He is livid that they are even considering that she may have shot Deb and killed Lundy. Why would she? Still, he relents and Masuka tests the DNA to discover she is related to the “Trinity Killer.” Christine confronts her father in a parking lot that she saw him murder a woman in a bathtub when she was a child, that she has pieced together the patterns of his killing cycle through the postcards he sent her, and that she killed Lundy to protect him. Expecting him to visit her again, she answers the door. Deb, Quinn and Batista take her into custody.